But he stays by the window, remembering that life. They had laughed. They had leaned on each other and laughed until the tears had come, while everything elseโthe cold and where he'd go in itโwas outside, for a while anyway.
Raymond CarverIn the beginning, when I was trying to write, I couldnt turn off the outside world to the extent that I can now.
Raymond CarverI've crossed some kind of invisible line. I feel as if I've come to a place I never thought I'd have to come to. And I don't know how I got here. It's a strange place. It's a place where a little harmless dreaming and then some sleepy, early-morning talk has led me into considerations of death and annihilation.
Raymond Carver